Voces desde el frente. Crónicas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

The author of "Blue Desert" meditates upon the emotional, spiritual, and political shambles of the late 1960s and early 1970s and upon the strength of the land, particularly the desert Southwest, and its ability to prevail despite modern efforts to exploi

We studied the important events in the life and work of Puerto Rican scientist and politician Narciso Rabell Cabrero (1873-1928). He lived in the turmoil of the change of sovereignty from the Spain regime to the United States of America regime during the American-Hispanic War of 1898. Despite this turmoil, he made contributions in the natural history of Puerto Rico, especially in paleontology, archaeology, pharmacy, botany and politics. Rabell Cabrero was a man without boundaries. A genealogical summary is also provided.

"Un viejo travesti de la c rcel nos dio la clave para entender los procesos de subjetivaci n espec ficos de la instituci n carcelaria. La Paz nos se al el orden preformativo de las identidades y de la subjetividad. Ella misma pasa por su cuerpo desde lo homosexual al machismo. Por lo tanto, queda en una zona intermedia, en un entre permanente. Es ambos a la vez. Entonces, si continu bamos adheridos a la polaridad femenino/masculino, hombre/mujer, creyendo que el g nero corresponde a la diferenciaci n de unidades discretas, lo que ella nos dec a no ten a sentido alguno. Lo que hicimos fue...